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TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

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XEnrQ TIL while the first and second US presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote were separated by just 12 years, happening in 1876 and 1888, the third such election didn't happen until 2000.
E1eQp TIL about the "Coolidge effect," male animals preferring to mate with new females. Pres. Coolidge and his wife visited a farm, & Mrs. Coolidge learning a rooster mated a dozen times a day, said "Tell Mr. Coolidge." Pres. Coolidge told the rooster had a new hen each time, said "Tell Mrs. Coolidge."
yQaop TIL Humans as individuals are becoming more peaceful individually, but as a group we create increasingly more devastating threats of violence.
JoWB TIL that after Europeans settled in Australia in 1788, they tried to brew many popular English-style ales, but environmental factors and its remote location proved too difficult. Eventually, brewers created a lighter lager and the only native beer style to the country, the Australian Sparkling Ale.
8avyL TIL of Wilhelm Stuckart, responsible for the Nazi regime’s program of euthanasia for “deformed newborns.” Two years after creating the laws, his own son born with Down syndrome became one of their victims.